10.4: Export Mail to mbox with Save As...
Mail for Mac OS X 10.4 stores messages in individual elmx files instead of a single mbox file. This allows Spotlight to index individual messages, but makes it harder to move your mail to other mail clients like Thunderbird. Two existing hints (A script to export Mail's mboxes for Thunderbird and 10.4: Export Mail messages to Thunderbird, revisited) seem to imply that you need a script or application to easily create an mbox file. However Mail (I'm using Version 2.1 on 10.4.7) does know how to create mbox files -- it just doesn't use the term Export. Select the messages you want in the mbox file. (Press Command-A to export the whole folder.) Go to the File menu and select Save As... ...
published on Monday, the 10. July 2006, macosxhints